Pressellers pair cheese with art
SUN PHOTO BY GORDON BOWER
You won’t see a retail combination like this one very often, but it’s working for the husband and wife team of Jerry and Patti Presseller.
SUN PHOTO BY GORDON BOWER
Big Cheese owner Jerry Presseller shows off a brick of creamy havarti with horseradish and chives, which goes perfectly on a burger or with any kind of beef.
SUN PHOTO BY GORDON BOWER
Patti Presseller creative bent is now focused on collages, and she’s not averse to using cheese containers from her husband’s cheese shop.
SUN PHOTO BY GORDON BOWER
Patti Presseller’s collages make creative use of unusual materials to form three-dimensional works of art.
Longtime downtown businessman and Downtown Merchants Association President, Jerry Presseller, can’t go for long without scratching an itch to open a business. After closing his deli last year and with nothing but running the Downtown Merchants Association Farm Market to worry about, he opened the Big Cheese Deli and Gourmet in the corner of wife Patti’s Sunart Gallery & Framing, 307 Taylor St., Punta Gorda.
For Jerry, a cheese shop in an art gallery makes more sense than it would seem on the surface.
